SeaTac lawmakers have adopted a shoreline master plan with additional restrictions on Angle Lake homeowners, but have kept in place a 65-foot setback provision.

The draft plan presented by city staffers would have required new buildings to be constructed 75 feet from Angle Lake's shoreline.

Under the draft plan, if a home that was less than 75 feet from the shoreline burned down, the homeowner would have to rebuild a new home at least 10 feet farther back from the shore.

However, an amendment to the draft plan that maintained the 65-foot setback passed unanimously.

The state Department of Ecology must approve the city's amended plan to make sure it complies with provisions of the state shoreline management act.

Councilman Ralph Shape pointed out that 14 houses around the lake are less than 75 feet from the shore. A 65 foot restriction could be considered "a taking" of property, Shape said.

Some critics of the council's decision to condemn a commercial surface parking lot next to the airport light-rail station complain lawmakers are being hypocritical in opposing lake restrictions. Council members have rescinded the eminent domain action.

Four of the council's seven members live on or near Angle Lake.

In SeaTac, Angle Lake is the only body of water to qualify for regulation under the state act.

The new shoreline plan could impose more restrictions on replacement docks and bulkheads.

Gabe Snedeker, SeaTac's shoreline management consultant, has noted the act's key concept is "no net loss" of ecological function.

Under the plan, new housing units with more than four units on the lake will have to provide public access to the lake.